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Re: 1/2 AA battery, LOL this guy is still selling these on ebay.

Hmm. You know what would be a neat hack? Have a Mac app that can save PRAM to the writable Plus ROM, and have the modified ROM load PRAM from ROM early at boot. Boom, PRAM preservation with no battery.

Re: 1/2 AA battery, LOL this guy is still selling these on ebay.

bbraun wrote:

Hmm. You know what would be a neat hack? Have a Mac app that can save PRAM to the writable Plus ROM, and have the modified ROM load PRAM from ROM early at boot. Boom, PRAM preservation with no battery.

Eventually though you would kill the cells in the flash memory? what about using a regular EEPROM for this, or a I2C serial eeprom (of course a controller would be needed then)